The annual selection
Once a year, each partner community shares a curated selection: the best speculative fiction of its language, by its own standards. We merge the selections into the European picture — and every partner gets back what no single list can contain.
One curated list per year — a top ten or a hundred, new works or rediscovered classics; how many, and by which criteria, is entirely each community's own decision. One spreadsheet (CSV or similar), one row per work. Three columns are required — everything else is welcome but optional:
| Column | Required | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
author | ✱ | Author name as credited |
title | ✱ | Title as published |
language | ✱ | Language of this publication (ISO code or name) |
original_title | If a translation: the original title | |
original_language | If a translation: the original language | |
translator | If a translation: translator name | |
publisher | Publisher or magazine | |
year | Year of publication | |
type | novel, novella, short_story, collection, anthology, poem, poetry … | |
isbn | ISBN when one exists | |
url | Link to the record on the partner's own site | |
note | Why this story — one or two sentences from the curators, shown with the work. This note is what turns a list into a recommendation. |
Example row: Ana Horvat, Vrt na kraju svijeta, hr, , , , Hangar 7, 2026, novel, 9789531234567, https://example.hr/vrt
- The merged European selection — the year's best across all participating languages, machine-readable.
- Translation matches: which works from your language appeared elsewhere, and which foreign works appeared in yours — ready for your own bibliography.
- Attribution on every record: your name, a link to your page, and a listing as contributor.
- Corrections and enrichments flowing back: ISBNs, external identifiers, and duplicates we spot while merging.
The principles
Partners stay the source of truth for their language — the exchange is voluntary, yearly, and bounded, and what "best" means is each community's own call. Every record here links back to its origin. Nothing is harvested without consent; the collection adds only what no single list can hold: the view across languages, and the gaps between them.
Interested, sceptical, or both? stories@europiasf.eu